Shoe polisher and shoe-polish stick



Dec. 17, 1929. N. c. SHATZER SHOE POLISHER AND SHOE POLISH STICK Filed Sept. 1'7 1927 Nur'man ll. Ehatzer Patented Dec. 17, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE NORMAN G. SHATZER, OF ZULLINGER, PENNSYLVANIA SHOE POLISHER AND SHOE-POLISH STICK Application filed. September 17, 1927. Serial No. 220,183.

or sealed without liability of soiling exteriorsurroundings.

A further object of this invention is the provision of an improved shoe polisher which may be used to perform shoe polishing operations without the soiling of the hands, and which may be kept in dressing rooms, and other places, such as when packing, without liability of soiling parts with which it may come in contact, and without inconvenience; cleanliness and handiness being essential features of the improved compact shoe polisher.

Other objects and advantages of this invention will be apparent during the course of the following detailed description.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, and wherein similar reference characters designate corresponding parts thruout the several views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved shoe polishing apparatus, showing the buffer, and shoe polishing stick cover in re moved relation with respect thereto.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view of the forward end of the improved shoe polisher, showing the polishing stick details and associated parts.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view taken substantially on the line 33 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary perspective view, partly in section, showing parts of an im proved polishing stick unit which may be used in connection with the improved shoe polisher for applying polish without the necessity of soiling the hands.

In the drawing, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown only a preferred embodiment of the invention, the letter A may generally designate the improved shoe polishing apparatus, which may comprise a support or back B having handle C attached therewith, and to the rearthereof having a buffer D, and

at the opposite surface having the polish unit.

The back or support B is preferably made of wood, or analogous material, and has the handle C integral therewith. In cross section the back B is preferably rectangular, and

along the opposite side edges thereof the same is preferably provided with grooves 10, extending the length of the back; the grooves preferably being formed by the sides of the handle C from the buffer supporting surface in a converging relation to an abrupt shoulder 11 shown in Figure 3 of the drawing.

The buffer construction D preferably consists of a plurality of layers of felt or analogous material 12 placed over the buffer facing surface of the back B, and the buffer element 14 may be of lambs wool or the like, secured at its ends to the ends of the handle C as by screws or like elements 15; the flexible buffer member 14 of course being stretched tightly over the felt layers 12, as shown in the drawing, in such relation that the buffer part of the improved brush may be readily renewed. On the opposite surface 15 of the back B from the buffer construction D is disposed the polish u'nit E. This rear surface 15' adjacent the forward end of the back 13 is provided with a substantially circular socket 17, wherein is positioned a preferably metal receptacle 18, secured as at 19 in place. Concentric wlth the compartment 111 the receptacle 18 is disposed a polish supporting and feed block 20, of substantially solid cylindrical formation, the same preferably being of wood and screw threaded centrally at 21 to the back B; the screw 21 being inserted from the buffer side of the back B axially into the material of the block 20, as shown in Fig ure 3 of the drawings. The block 20 is cylin;

drical in formation and annularly spaced from the internal periphery of the receptacle 18 to provide an annular space 22, well shown in Figure 3 of the drawing, wherein an end of the cover 25 may he slipped.

The polish unit E is preferably adapted to receive a special refill unit 28, consisting of shallow cartridge shaped paste polish material30, of substantiallycylindrical formation, movably supported in frictional relation within an end of a cylindrical shaped tube or container 31. As shown in Figure 4, the polish cartridge is peripherally enveloped by a preferably waxy paper 33 which prevents the material from adhering to the inside of the tube 31 to permit the same to be moved longitudinally of the tube 31 as the material 30 is consumed. The tube 31 is adapted to be snugly slipped in a frictional engagement over the outer end of the supporting block 20, which projects beyond the back B, as shown in Figure 8, in order to hold the material 30 in an exposed relation projecting from the outer end of the tube 31. A follower disc is placed between the outer surface of the block 20 and the facing surface of the material .30 to permit proper feed of the latter as the same is consumed and the tube 31 slipped onto the feed block 20.

It is preferred that some protecting material be placed over the shoe rubbing wear end of the material 30 and thus it is preferred that perforated fabric 4:0, preferably of gauze, or porous material, be placed over the outer end of the material 30, and peripherally held onto the tube 31 by means of a friction tube 45 which is slipped in a telescoped relation over the tube 31, as shown in Figure 3 of the drawing to hold the cloth or fabric in a snug and taut relation over the exposed end of the material 30. It is to be understood that the material 40 is caught tightlv between the tubes 31 and and frictionally held in place, and the tube 45 is of a diameter which will snugly clamp about the tube 31 and urge the latter into a binding engagement about the end of the feed block 20 which is received in the said tube 31, and as is well shown in Figure 3 of the drawing.

The use of the polish unit may be well understood. It is preferred to provice a cover 25 which may receive the feed block 20; material 80 and tubes 31 and 45 therein; this cover 25 being of substantially cylindrical formation, and having a screw threaded end adapted to screw thread in complementary threads provided in the receptacle portion 18, as shown at 52 in Figure 3 of thedrawing.

In the use of the improved polish unit the cover 25 is removed, and the tubes 31 and 4-5 are slipped toward the back B over the feed block 20 until sufiicient of the material 30 projects beyond the outer marginal edges of the tubes 31 and a5 to rule over the surface of the shoe which it is desired shall receive the polish. Of course in this relation the fabric 40 is stretched taut over the polish so. Th polish 30 upon rubbing against the shoe surface will work thru the pores of the fabric l0 onto the surface of the shoe, Of

course the tubes 31 and 45 move together, due to their snugengagement with each Other in the clampingof t'hefabric 51:0 therebetween. As h mater al 3 is onsumed the tubes. 1 and 5 are orked upon thef ed cylind r 20 ntil all-9f he ma eria 3.0 is csnsumed- It is intended to sell the improved brush with a container wherein several of the refill units 28 are received, the refill units preferably consisting of the disc 35; the polish material 30 and the tubes 31 and 45 with the assembled fabric 40. The refill unit 28 may be readily detached or attached upon the cylinder block 20) and held in frictional engagement thereon without working loose.

It is readily apparent from the foregoing that a novel shoe polishing brush and polish stick or unit has been provided, by means of which a person may polish his or her shoes without soiling the hands by touching the polish during the application. cover 25 the polish unit may be compactly enclosed without soiling parts adjacent to the brush.

Itis also intended to provide a buffer cover K, shown in Figure 1, and including a body. having side attaching flanges 61 and 62 and a front attachment flange 63, which slip over the sides and front respectively of the buffer D and back B; the side flanges 61 and 62 slipping into the grooves 10 and clamping with a spring action therein to hold the cover K in place.

Various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be made to the form ofv invention herein shown and described,

Due to the without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the following claims.

I claim:

1. In a device of the class described a support having a recess therein, a receptacle embedded in the recess, a supporting feed block in the receptacle aflixed to the back and to the receptacle and extending from the receptacle in a projecting relation, a tube for sliclable frictional engagement on the block with the latter disposed therein, and polish material in the tube against which the block may operate to feed the polish material from the tube as the tube is slipped onto the block.

2. In polishing apparatus a handled support having a reduced substantially cylindrical shaped projection thereon, a tube frictionally slidable on said projection, and polish material slidable in the tube against which the projection may engage as the tube isslid thereon to feed the material from the tube.

3. In polishing apparatus a supportincluding a receptacle, a projection in. the receptacle spaced froin the walls thereof and having a portion extending exteriorly of the receptacle, and a polish refill unit detachably supported on the extending portion of the projection, outside of the receptacle.

4;. In polishing zmparat'us a. supporting back having afsocket'therein, a receptacle in the Socket, & ubst n ially cylindrical shaped feed block connected in the receptacle in nular spaced relation thereinand projecting from he eptacle su st ntially tubular shaped member slidably. receiving the. projecting end of the feed block in frictional sliding relation therein, a second tube frictionally slidable on the first mentioned tube, a block of plastic feed material in the first mentioned tube, a follower disc slidable in the first mentioned tube between the plastic polish material and feed block, and porous fabric frictionally clamped about its margins between the two tubes in a tautly 10 stretched relation over the exposed exterior end of the polish material.

5. In polishing apparatus a support including a receptacle, a projection in the receptacle, a polish refill unit detachably supported on the projection and extending outside of the receptacle, said polish refill unit including a tube frictionally slidable on the projection, and a block of plastic polish material slidable in said tube against which the 20 projection may bear to feed the polish material from the tube.

6. In polishing apparatus a support including a receptacle, a projection in the receptacle a polish refill unit detachably supported on the projection and extending outside of the receptacle, said polish refill unit including a tube frictionally slidable on the projection, a block of plastic polish material slidable in said tube against which the projection may 11?) bear to feed the polish material from the tube, said projection being annularly spaced from the inner Wall surface of the receptacle whereby the tube may be slid into the annular space as the block of polish material is consumed.

NORMAN C. SHATZER. 

